Whistler
Reflection
To reflect on my project, I think that I did a good job identifying how the geography impacts my town, Whistler. In order to find out how the vegetation, physical landforms, and climate impacted my community, I thought about what kind of things I’ve seen in Whistler. From there, I began to start my research on the climate and vegetation in my town. To complete the physical landforms, I had to read through the notes I had taken in class. I got some of my information for all three categories online and in those notes. For the economic activities, I had to research a lot about Whistler’s logging. It took time to find websites that would give me the information I was looking for. To start the visual display of my project, I had to work from a backwards design. In order to do so, I started by placing location icons in the places where the economic activities, vegetation, physical landforms, climate, and the future businesses could be found in Whistler. Then, I began to work on customizing the bubbles to match the colours and symbols that reminded me of those places. All the things are categorized by matching colour. For example, I made vegetation bright green and climate yellow. To decide the future developments of my town, I imagined what businesses are good to have because of Whistler’s climate, landforms, and vegetation. After I had completed placing the location icons, I titled them by type of physical landform, vegetation or climate the town had, and followed that by which of those it fell under. I wanted to put all the information under one of the icons, and to identify that, I added a #1 to the ones the information fell under, and a #2 to the ones that wouldn’t have information. Example, Forests- Vegetation #1. All the information for economic activities would also fall under the ones labeled #1. The economic activities were titled according to the activity and then category. To conclude the creation of my map, I added images in each bubble that matched its category, then I cited the photos. If I would refine my project in the future, I would separate all the information under each location icon. Overall, I am very happy with the result of my project and believe that I did a good job finding information and making my project aesthetically pleasing, while being functional.
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